"Death is the absolute salvation..." ― Hades
Summary
Hades, Underworld Emperor (冥王ハーデス; meiö hadesu; Κόλαση Αυτοκράτορας Άδης) is the Greek God of the Dead and Lord of the Underworld, as seen in the Saint Seiya Franchise. Alongside his brothers Zeus and Poseidon, he is one of the Three Sacred Emperors who stand above the other Olympians, and considered one of the most powerful deities in the entire Universe.
During the Era of Myth Hades was a God who, while ruling over Darkness and the Dead, proved fair with all humans, enforcing his justice upon all souls. Those who committed atrocities as living would pay for their sins within the depths of Hades, while those who proved virtuous enough were allowed to find bliss in Elysium. However, those times are long gone.
Hades grew colder, melancholic and furious with the passing of the decades, his nature as a righteous God who treated humanity with respect slowly turning into one of pure hatred and disgust. Humanity not only endlessly repeated their past sins, but fell deeper and deeper into a pool of violence, suffering, corruption. With time, even the Gods who ruled over and guided them came to be forgotten and ridiculed as superstitious tales.
Now, Hades wishes nothing for the absolute demise of humanity, cleansing the Earth of it's impurity and bringing their souls salvation in the absolute black of death. Once that was dealt with, the entire Earth would be covered in a layer of complete darkness which the light of the Sun and the Heavens would never penetrate. Only then, could the Earth and Humanity be rebuild from scratch, and a new, purer humanity could be born.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 3-A | 2-C
Name: Hades
Origin: Saint Seiya
Gender: Male
Age: Millions of years old. 13 - 17 as Shun. 14 as Alone
Classification: Deity, Greek God, Olympian God, God of the Dead / God of the Underworld
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8 - Gods are conceptual beings, and will still live even if you destroy their bodies and souls completely), Abstract Existence, Regeneration (Mid-Godly), Acausality, Enhanced Senses (Has 4 more senses than normal Humans, the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Sense), Conceptual Manipulation, Reality Warping, Matter Manipulation (Cosmo's basic power is destroying objects on atomic level. While moving faster than light, one can destroy even photons itself), Flight, Spatial Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation (Bestowed it upon Pandora), Death Manipulation (His presence can kill those around him), Possession (Possessed Shun and Alone as his selected hosts), Energy Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation (Lost Canvas only), Psychokinesis (Telekinesis, Teleportation and Telepathy), Attack Reflection (Any attack without Divine Cosmos thrown at Hades has its potency reverted to the attacker), Cross-Universal Portal Creation, Illusion Creation, Existence Erasure (Through Greatest Eclipse/Lost Canvas), Causality Manipulation, Void Manipulation (Those cut by the Sword of Hades are annihilated completely in body and soul, removed from the Wheel of Samsara and sent to the World of Emptiness where time does not exist, unable to revive or reincarnate), Precognition (7th sense gives those who possess it precognitive capabilities), Non-Physical Interaction (Cosmos users can hit ghosts), Elemental Manipulation (Earth, water, wind, fire, light and darkness, with Dunamis a source of power all Gods possess), Chaos Manipulation (Eskatos Dunamis is the power to create Chaos), BFR (Can send opponents to a void that is outside the cycle of reincarnation, where they will never be able to return), Creation (Created the Underworld and the Elysium), Fate Manipulation (The great gods are stated to be capable of controlling fate), Aura (The Gods' Cosmos passively make those around them become fearful, and compell them to follow the Gods' demand), Regeneration Negation, Possibly Physics Manipulation (Here), Intangibility (He can become a soul), Sealing (Sealed the power of Sasha Athena in Lost Canvas), Resurrection (Can ressurect his Specters at will, and 8th sense users can resurrect at will), Passsive Perception Manipulation (Saint Seiya Deities' Cosmos remove all six senses from those in their prescence and his Cosmo passively disables the mind and the five senses of the opponent), Status Effect Inducement/ Forcefield Creation (Can create a barrier that reduces the opponent's power), Curse Manipulation (A direct hit from Hades' sword left God Cloth Pegasus Seiya in a catatonic state without cosmo), Paralysis Inducement, Life Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, and Heat Manipulation (The power that radiates from Gods causes the affected targets to be paralyzed. Their Life Force then starts to drain, and they then have their strength, speed, and durability reduced along with their life force by being near a God's Cosmo. Powering up their cosmo causes the heat in the area around them to increase drastically, along with their attacks being imbued with intense heat), Extrasensory Perception (Gods have additional senses such as the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th sense), Absorption (Hades can absorb attacks), Power Bestowal (Can his specters powers), Petrification (His powers has been able to turn others to stones)
Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Here), Illusions, Dream Manipulation, Life & Death Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation (The Super Dimensional Space Hades has control over which the Bronze Saints needed Athena's blood to be unaffected. It is also a path only gods can travel. Aries Shion was still capable of thought when time was stopped along with Leo Regulus when they encountered Mephisto), Radiation Manipulation (Scaling from Aiolia who was able to resist radiation from a nuclear power plant with his Cosmo), Poison Manipulation, Blood Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Heat Manipulation (All Cosmo users generate heat around them by powering up, other Cosmo users can take this just fine), Electricity Manipulation (Entry level Cosmo users can withstand 10,000 volts. While more experienced Cosmo users can withstand even more than that), Causality Manipulation, and Age Manipulation
Attack Potency: Universe level (Above Poseidon in Julian Solo's body, who was encompassing the universe with his Cosmos) | Low Multiverse level (Created Hell, the Hyperdimension, and Elysium, and sustained them through his Will. Could have easily killed Athena if he wasn't holding back)
Speed: Massively FTL+ | Massively FTL+ (Attacked all the God Cloth Saints at the same time with one attack. None of them could react to it)
Lifting Strength: Multi-Stellar (Far stronger physically than any mortal or lesser deity. Aligned the Solar System with a thought in his weakest incarnation, while from universes away) | Multi-Stellar
Striking Strength: Universal | Low Multiversal (Can cut through even God Cloths with ease)
Durability: Universe level. Ignores absolute zero | Low Multiverse level with his Surplice (Was killed by a Miracle of Athena, who used her Staff of Niké, which bypasses Durability)
Stamina: Limitless
Range: Universal | Low Multiversal
Standard Equipment: Surplice Armor and Sword of Hades
Intelligence: Incredibly Intelligent. Thousands to Millions of years old, Ruled the Universe alongside Zeus and Poseidon, Perfect control of Cosmos, High Spiritual Connection, Commands a Large Army, Skilled Warrior, Skilled Painter
Weaknesses: Hades is particularly vulnerable if he's in the body of a human. The Light of the Heavens, which brings Hope to humanity, can bring serious damage to his body
- In the body of his host, and without his Surplice, he is superior to the likes of Thanatos and Hypnos who could kill people with thoughts across time and space.
- Master of all life Hades's presence instantly kills everything within his vicinity and rejects all forms of life.
- In his true form, he could create Hell/Hades, The Hyperdimension and the Elysium Fields. All of which are part of the Greek Underworld, which resides outside the Universe's Space-Time, and maintained them through his Divine Will. The Hyperdimension is the size of a universe, containing billions of/countless galaxies, and Elysium is said to be infinite. Hell/Hades is likely comparable in size.
- With limited control of Hades's Cosmos, could raise the gravity to Astronomically High Numbers. (Lost Canvas)
- Fought the Titans back when they were unsealed for 10 years with the rest of the Olympians. (Titanomachy)
- Alone, with limited control of Hades's Cosmos, could create countless stars, planets and moons, as well as a staircase that extends to infinity. (Lost Canvas)
- Alone, with limited control of Hades's Cosmos, could englobe the entire country of Italy in shadows and levitate it to the skies. (Lost Canvas)
- Described by Shion, who had fought with Hypnos at the time, to be a God who's power was endless and beyond reach. (Lost Canvas)
- With the Lost Canvas, Hades can completely destroy a person's existence. Ending not just their lives and bodies, but their souls as well. (Lost Canvas)
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Greatest Eclipse: Through his Divine Will, Hades has all the Solar System's planets shift their positioning at incredible speeds, until all eventually form a perfect alignment. On Earth, the moon slowly covers the Sun in an Eclipse that can be simultaneously observed from all places in the planet. Merely gazing at the event shatters the hopes in mortal's souls, and the shadows that cover the surface bring despair to all. Once the Eclipse is concluded, mankind will instantly cease to exist. Their bodies will be vaporized, their creations shattered to dust and their souls forever erased. It will also cover the entire Solar System in a barrier of Darkness.
- Divine Curse: Through his sword his lingering hate could inflict a spiritual wound (shaped as his sword, invisible except to Gods) that blocks the lifeforce and power of his enemy, induces a coma and eventually causes death through the sword slowly moving into the body of the victim. It was used against God Saint Seiya so he would never reincarnate again and even after the death of Hades it's hard to remove by other Olympian Gods, prompting Athena to attempt to change history in order to save him.
- Lightning of Darkness: Hades surrounds his Divine Sword with his immense Cosmos, making it so that an incredible aura of deep crimson light begins emanating from it. Then, moving his arm and swinging his blade at amazing speeds, a powerful wave of absolute Cosmic Energy is released, slicing through and sub-atomically destroying all that lies within it's path.
- Lost Canvas: An attack that functions similarly to the Greatest Eclipse, but which can work at ranges far more focused and potentially far greater. Hades is capable of completely destroying and erasing the existence of all beings whose image he paints, bringing the end of their lives, or even the complete destruction of their bodies and the shattering of their souls. Thus, he creates a gigantic painting of the skies, representing the souls of all living beings on Earth as angels in eternal bliss. When the painting is concluded, all shall instantly die and know the eternal, silent peace of non-existence. The limits of this attack are unknown.
Key: Possessing Shun / Alone | True Body with Surplice
Note: Most of his feats were done when he was not in his true body and furthermore we have yet to know whether or not he actually used his Kamui as such his upper limits remain unknown.
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"Oh, humans... You are always acting madly on impulse in the face of despair, with no regards for your strengths and limitations. Now, no longer satiated with the Earth bestowed upon you by the Gods, you attempt to claim the universe so you may taint it as well. And beyond all that... You dare defy the Gods themselves, when instead you ought to accept and bow to our Will... But now that you have abandoned even the feeling of devotion, I declare that you are not merely foolish, but rather beings worthy of pity." ― Hades, upon facing Seiya
"I-It can't be... I who have absolute power over death... I who am a God... How can I lay defeated within the realm of the dead? ... I don't believe, I can't' believe! ... But... If I die, then this Underworld, created by me, shall too reach it's end. Hell, The Elysium Fields... Everything... A-Athena, you too shall be wrapped in this world's destruction, and will certainly perish alongside me... And this will mean that humans won't have achieved a true victory... Heh... Athena, you who are a Goddess, when will you realize? This love of which you speak... Is naught but a hallucination created by the minds of humans... In reality, no one truly believes in this intangible, eternal love... No one does!" ― Hades, as he is dying
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